Identifying silver-coated surfaces on Early Bronze Age axes from Bohemia
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F62690094%3A18460%2F23%3A50019964" target="_blank" >RIV/62690094:18460/23:50019964 - isvavai.cz</a>
Alternative codes found
RIV/00216224:14210/23:00130202 RIV/60461373:22310/23:43928531
Result on the web
<a href="https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jasrep.2022.103820" target="_blank" >https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jasrep.2022.103820</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jasrep.2022.103820" target="_blank" >10.1016/j.jasrep.2022.103820</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Identifying silver-coated surfaces on Early Bronze Age axes from Bohemia
Original language description
Deposits of bronze and copper artefacts are a common feature of the developed Únětice culture in Central Europe. Hoards of axes are especially frequent in Central Germany in the area between Halle, Salle and Dieskau. From this area come the most impressive assemblages of axe hoards. In Bohemia, Czech Republic, a more distant area from Central Germany, the hoards are less frequent and less rich. Until recently the largest hoards came from Northwest Bohemia, which was explained by its geographical closeness to Germany. However, this changed due to a find in Kukleny in Eastern Bohemia of 57 axes; it is the largest axe hoard in Bohemia so far. In total, 65 bronze axes were analysed in hoards found in Kukleny and Kunčice, a smaller hoard found only several kilometres from Kukleny. Our multimethod analysis, based on electron and reflected-light microscopy, identified surprising data related to the axes’ chemical composition, including strong evidence of silver and gold coatings, and we analysed the use-wear of the majority of the found axes.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
60102 - Archaeology
Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach
Others
Publication year
2023
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Journal of archaeological science : reports
ISSN
2352-409X
e-ISSN
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Volume of the periodical
47
Issue of the periodical within the volume
February
Country of publishing house
NL - THE KINGDOM OF THE NETHERLANDS
Number of pages
16
Pages from-to
"Article number 103820"
UT code for WoS article
000977720700001
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85146453718